Through the Shadows with O. Henry

Jennings, Al

ISBN 10: 0896724808 / ISBN 13: 9780896724808

Edité par Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX, 2002

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NEW book. SIGNED by author of introduction. Facsimile reproduction of 1921 memoir. Guaranteed satisfaction; bookseller since 1988.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Through the Shadows with O. Henry
• Éditeur: Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0896724808
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780896724808
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Al Jennings, if we are to believe him, was for several years a close friend of O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), perhaps America's favorite short-story writer. They met, Jennings claims, as outlaws on the run in Honduras, served time together in the Columbus, Ohio, Penitentiary at the turn of the century, and later met up in New York. Jennings, erstwhile lawyer, bank robber, and Hollywood consultant, was the subject of the 1951 movie Al Jennings of Oklahoma, starring Dan Duryea. Although a suspect narrator at best, Jennings is a masterful storyteller in this 1921 classic. Jennings describes the horrors of prison life so compellingly that the book might have served as a call for prison reform. Yet he also tells how he, O. Henry, and their friends managed to cope. They secured jobs in the prison post office and pharmacy and managed to find a secret room near the kitchen where on Sunday evenings they retired for a fine meal--complete with wine secured from corrupt prison contractors--and good talk. As Jennings recaps their long, philosophical discussions, readers may wish to have joined them in the fancy New York restaurants they were later able to frequent. Anyone reading Through the Shadows with O. Henry will agree that both of the author and his subject were characters worthy of any O. Henry tale.--Mike Cox

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